silletazo

Spanish

Etymology

From silla (“chair”) +‎ -etazo, from an extended variant of -azo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /siʝeˈtaθo/ [si.ʝeˈt̪a.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /siʝeˈtaθo/ [si.ʝeˈt̪a.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /siʎeˈtaθo/ [si.ʎeˈt̪a.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siʝeˈtaso/ [si.ʝeˈt̪a.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /siʝeˈtaso/ [si.ʝeˈt̪a.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /siʎeˈtaso/ [si.ʎeˈt̪a.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /siʃeˈtaso/ [si.ʃeˈt̪a.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /siʒeˈtaso/ [si.ʒeˈt̪a.so]

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: si‧lle‧ta‧zo

Noun

silletazo m (plural silletazos)

1. hit with a chair

Further reading

• “silletazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10